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My old rain barrel cracked after 11 winters, got 70 gallons of mess in the backyard
The plastic split right at the spigot seam during that cold snap last month, and I woke up to a mini swamp around my cucumber bed. 11 years of freeze and thaw finally won, I guess, which is honestly not bad for a $40 drum from the feed store. I drained what was left into buckets, patched the crack with some epoxy for now, but I'm shopping for a metal one this time. Anyone else had luck switching from plastic to galvanized, or should I just build a wooden stand to keep the weight off the ground?
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stone.lisa2d agoTop Commenter
My cousin lost a whole koi pond that way, now he uses a cattle trough.
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